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Economics Behind the Fall of Autocracy in Bangladesh
Naheed Islam was not yet born in 1996, when prime minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh began her first term in office. In 2009, when she was elected to her second term, Islam had just turned 11. On...
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Beyond Refuge: Empowering Rohingya to Lead Their Own Future
“The vast majority of my people are in refugee camps or in apartheid villages, struggling every day just to make a living… They deserve to have a biography, not someone like me, living in Canada with a...
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Accusations of US Regime-Change Operations in Pakistan and Bangladesh Warrant...
Two former leaders of major South Asian countries have reportedly accused the United States of covert regime change operations to topple their governments. One of the leaders, former Pakistan Prime...
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Harrowing Phone Calls Expose Global Campaign of Repression
The story and video we’re sharing today is probably unlike anything you’ve seen before, yet it reflects a growing and worrisome phenomenon that goes by the fairly clinical term of “transnational...
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Will Bangladesh Be Another Egypt?
The day after former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka, I was on the phone with a friend who had spent some time on the streets that day. He told me about the atmosphere in Dhaka, how...
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Prospects in Jammu and Kashmir: Will the People Matter?
How consequential will the up coming Jammu and Kashmir assembly election be? Clearly, should the ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) pull off a stunning victory and form the government, alone or with...
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Reviving Worker’s Power in Singapore: Left Activists Speak
Singapore’s once vibrant left and labour movement led the nation’s successful anti-colonial struggle in the 1950s and ’60s. However, dreams of an independent and socialist Singapore were betrayed by...
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Individual Liberty and the SC Verdict on PMLA
In a purposefully detailed judgment on the grant of bail to a citizen accused under the draconian Prevention of Money Laundering Act, the Supreme Court last week placed the issue in a context...
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We Want Justice: The Renewed Struggle for Safety and Freedom for Women in India
The horrific rape and murder of a 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital has triggered a massive people’s assertion in West Bengal powered by a...
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US Intervention and Neoliberalism Aggravate Political Upheaval in Bangladesh
Weeks of student-led and often violent protests forced the resignation and exile on August 5 of Bangladesh’s prime minister Sheikh Hasina. Demonstrators were reacting to inflation, unemployment,...
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Tariq Ali on U.S. & U.K. Arming Israel’s War on Gaza, Pakistan Protests &...
We speak to acclaimed historian, activist and filmmaker Tariq Ali about Western governments’ support for Israel’s war on Gaza and popular protest in support of Palestine, which Ali calls the “biggest...
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The Revolutionary Fire in the People Starts with a Song
Mallu Swarajyam (1931–2022) was born with an appropriate name. From deep within the mass movement against British colonialism that was initiated by India’s peasants and workers, and then shaped by M....
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US Provoked the 1979 Russian Invasion of Afghanistan: Parallel to the Ukraine...
The December 1979 invasion of Afghanistan was a watershed event, one that definitively ended “détente” between the global superpowers, the United States and the USSR, and inaugurated a new and more...
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One Nation, One Election, One Party, One Leader: Modi’s Plan Must Be Nipped...
Was there a more ominously forgettable idea spawned in independent India that all governments once elected simultaneously must be made independent of the electorate for five years, no matter what...
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Bangladesh: From Despot To Neoliberal Leader
On August 5, Sheikh Hasina Wajed, the prime minister of Bangladesh for the last 15 years, had to resign and run from the country after being driven out by student protesters. The student movement began...
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Political Paradigm Shift as Sri Lanka Leans to the Left
Under normal circumstances, the victory of Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Sri Lanka’s presidential election would have been called a political earthquake. But with many having labelled the left-leaning...
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Political Change in Sri Lanka Rests on the Dynamics of the Next Few Months
Sri Lanka elected Anura Kumara Dissanayake as its new president on September 21, marking the first time in the country’s history that a candidate outside the two major political parties has won the...
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The Electorate Restores Kashmiri Identity But Will the ‘Nationalists’ Take Heed?
In 1947, the moot question was whether the Muslim-majority Jammu & Kashmir, then a princely state, would follow the stipulations of the Partition agreement — namely, demography and contiguity — and...
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The Labor Movement in Myanmar Is Facing Brutal Retaliation
Since the military coup in Myanmar in February 2021, the military has tried to force us into subordination with killings, torture, bombing, countless arrests, and displacement. Since then, over three...
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Han Kang’s Nobel Prize Award Is a Cry for Palestine
South Korean novelist Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, beating short-listed literary heavyweights like Thomas Pynchon, Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, Gerald Murnane, and the...
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Palestine – The Lessons of East Timor
Given the history of the Israeli invasion of Palestine it is easy to believe that the 19 July ruling by the International Court of Justice, which rules that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied...
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Building Out the U.S. Hub-and-Spoke Empire in the Indo-Pacific
Focusing on its hub-and-spoke model, which it has used to keep itself positioned as the dominant hub of the Pacific, the United States is engaging in simultaneous efforts to facilitate cooperation...
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India is the Land of the Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi: Sonam Wangchuk Please...
Back in 2022, addressing the Rotary International World Convention virtually, Prime minister Narendra Modi had said “India is the land of the Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi who showed in action what living...
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Raw Deals: The Continued Shafting Of The Chagossians
The British government will return sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, whose residents were brutally displaced between 1965‒73, to Mauritius. In an October 3 joint statement between London and Port...
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U.S. and China — Why Not a Deal?
An old theme within social theory holds that societies with very unequal distributions of wealth can sustain their social cohesion so long as total wealth is growing. Such total growth enables all who...
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Kashmir Votes to Challenge Modi’s Grip
Previously arrested several times for “anti-India” activities, twenty-three-year-old Ikhlas Amin Bhat, a resident of Anantnag, campaigned for an independent candidate in Kashmir’s first legislative...
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How the Israeli Attack on Iran Could Seed a New World War
If you ask the average citizen of any country whether their leaders should start wars, almost all would give a resounding “No.” The public, overall, opposes war, but tolerates leaders who prioritize...
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What was Good for the Nazis is Good for the Zionists
History offers few more stark instances of oppressed peoples copycatting the ideological predilections and political praxis of their erstwhile oppressors once they come into their own than the...
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Fukushima: Stumbling Through Deconstruction of Reactor Meltdowns
Melted fuel still vexing test extraction methods Thirteen years on from the catastrophic triple explosions and reactor meltdowns at Fukushima-Daiichi in NE Japan, emergency responders are still trying...
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In Fencing China Out, Is Washington Fencing Itself In?
As Washington doubles down on its semiconductor embargoes, a troubling paradox emerges: in trying to stymie China’s technological advances, the United States might just be fencing itself in. Each...
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